Griff Jenkins, a Fox Television correspondent, was waiting with a microphone for a crowd of demonstrators on a Denver street today, hoping to catch signs of a breakup of the herd of cats known as the American Left.
The crowd came ten, twelve abreast up the street. One group held up a banner saying No War On Iran. Chanting was happening. Griff was casting the scene as a discontented, perhaps unstable mob out to oppose some things, maybe defend Hillary ( Fox's new g/f), or to assault whatever nefarious scheme the Party has in store. Whatever it was, Griff was Going In.
I've only seen the clip once, so I'm sure I didn't get it totally right, but I know funny. And it is hilarious.
take it downtown
Griff, an affable pencil neck, went to the middle of the street and waitied for the march to envelop him. Here they came, hordes of scruffy, awful looking people with who knows what on their minds, seemingly capable of World Bank, er, world class anarchy. Fox viewers watched with anticipation on the edges of their scratchy plaid furniture. What would happen?
Griff valiantly held up his mike to the first guy, "What are you demonstrating about?"
"Fuck you," came the reply.
Undaunted, Griff tried again, holding up his blunt instrument to another demonstrator, then another.
Maybe a half dozen answers pretty much exactly the same: Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
They were mostly smiling, no doubt drenched in cannabisism.
Finally Griff hit paydirt: a protester who could (would), speak a sentence. "We don't talk to Fox."
Then the comical wrap. As Griff was trying to engage this guy, he and his cameraman were jostled by the closing crowd and so as the picture shook with hand-held verite and Griff slid off the frame, we heard him crying, hey, don't.... <black>
Cut to studio where shaken blondehead huffs that the crowd has disrupted Griff's report, adding that she hope's he's all right. Something like that. I was gasping with pleasure by then.
I don't think we'll be seeing dat clip on Fox again, but I confidently await its emergence on youtube.
It's a great day in America.